Divisive Statement: Catholic community urges Tinubu, Sani to call El-Rufai to order

Divisive Statement: Catholic community urges Tinubu, Sani to call El-Rufai to order

The Catholic community in Kaduna State has called on President Bola Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani to call the immediate past Governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai to order before he sets the entire country into a religious crisis.

This is against the backdrop of a controversial statement on Muslim dominance in the governance of Kaduna State credited to El-Rufai.

In the trending video, El-Rufai, at a meeting with some Muslim clerics, said in the Hausa language that most Christians in Kaduna did not vote for his party (the All Progressives Congress), hence the reason he orchestrated their exclusion from being even Deputy Governor.

He also said that the APC can win elections without the Christians and that for the same reason, he deliberately excluded Christians from all the top cadre.

However, in an open letter copied to the Presidency and the Governor of Kaduna State, the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests Association (NCDPA), Kaduna State chapter asked Governor Sani to make his official position on El-Rufai’s inciting utterances known because he (Sani) was at the event where El-Rufai made the controversial statement.

The letter jointly signed by chairmen of Kaduna Archdiocese, Rev. Fr Joseph Gandu, Kafanchan Diocese, Very Rev. Fr Douglas Rock, and Zaria Diocese, Very Rev. Fr Samuel Ameh, the Priests said they expected Uba Sani to use his good office to correct the fallacies that the former governor’s actions and comments have created and propagated in Kaduna State in the past eight years.

The open letter was copied to the Presidency, the three Catholic Bishops of Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria; Archbishop Matthew Man’oso Ndagoso, Bishop Julius Yakubu Kundi and Very Rev. Fr Michael Kagarko respectively.